How to Protect Yourself From the New Supergerm

3/6/2013 8:22PM

A deadly strain of bacteria called CRE that's also referred to as "nightmare bacteria" is breaking out across the U.S. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter discusses how you can protect yourself from the supergerm. (Photo: AP)

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I ... Burress CRA ... attention ... as it can kill it ... oh and Jim Jelter MarketWatch and were talking today about a third deadly strain of bacteria this breaking out across much of the United States ... and how you can protect yourself from ... according to the Center for Disease Control CRU has been found in forty two states ... and it has increased fourfold over the past decade ... it's extremely aggressive and resistance all but two types of treatment those are antibiotics ... but they're so powerful themselves that their toxic so the cure might also kill ... him was a bit of a good news bad news story the good news is the very few people are going to tag by CR ... most people would ... fall victim to this are people in long term illnesses of the hospital for a very long time ... and then treated extensively by antibiotics which of course decreases their resistance to the bacteria the good news is that hospitals are figuring out how to deal with this book one of things they're doing is quarantined patients ... another thing they're doing is limiting the medical the number of medical stuff they have access to them ... often just one verse ... which of course is very expensive but there's more good news was the best ways of dealing with sin or use make sure that there's plenty of hand sanitizer and make sure that everyone is using to everyone that has ... access to a susceptible patient of course there's another solution but it's a more long term solution that simply did doctors from ... prescribing antibiotics that create the super blogs in the first place ... but that's going to take a little bit longer ... meanwhile ... the other corner drugstore ... Dickenson hand sanitizer